The Moment (559 hits)
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Submitted by heavenswalls <jbstizout.at.hotmail.com> (View user info) at 2003-07-29 02:12:51 EDT
It's been hot. Yes, you've heard it way too much already, but I can not stress it enough. Hotter than hell, and the 'Devil don't know it'. Shit, I thought it was hot last year, but this year makes it look like paradise.
Today started off just as good as any other day. I woke up to the morning sun shining on my fact through the cracks in my blind. It should've been an ominous warning to me at the time. I walked outside to enjoy the freshness of the cool air. I sat there for a bit and sipped on a beer watching the little neighborhood animals do their work before it got too hot to breath later on in the day. I was relaxed.
As I knew I would be, I was inside for most of the day, either at my house or a friend's. This is going nowhere quick because nothing exciting or terrible happened all day long. It was just hot. In my mind things have been going good for me. Good job, friends, family. Got an awesome ass girl that I've been thinking about a whole lot here lately starting to tilt my way in the relationship department, and things are overall grand.
So why was it that today I felt like I was dirty? No, not dirty in the literal sense, but dirty in an emotional way like there's been something there that's been making me itch. I don't like it, for I have no reason to feel this way. It hadn't rained here in so long it seemed. Tonight was different.
This whole post can be summed up by saying that it rained here tonight and it is still raining, but there's something more that I can't quite grip my thoughts on it. I was sitting in the girl's car earlier before it started raining and my mind started to flip out on me. There was a huge thunderhead rolling in that looked so fierce and ferrocious in the horizon. At that instant, I looked at everything that was in my eyesight, and I was disgusted. I have no idea why, and that's the problem. I wasn't disgusted at the objects themselves, just disgusted that they seemed so dirty, so worn.
I tried to act normal while sitting in her car while we were just talking, but I couldn't do it. The cloud's fingers were peeling over our heads then and the wind picked up outside. Something was coming, something good. It was still hot out, even though the sun was nowhere to be seen in the sky. All of a sudden there was a gust of wind that rocked the car violently enough to grab our attention. I grabbed her hand and asked her if she would get out of the car with me. I know that if I were on onlooker at this situation, I would've thought that these two kids were idiots because it was about to storm its ass off, and it wasn't safe to be outside.
She thought I was a maniac, but she got out anyway. I took her hand yet again once again and said "Trust me." The sky got darker as the cloud hid more and more blue sky from our eyes, all the while I was holding her hand firmly as reasurrance that it would be okay. It was still hot. Even the first wind of the storm hadn't changed the humidity in the air and it was still sticky to breath it in. So disgusting.
At that instant the rain hit, but not just a regular rain. This was a full force thunderstorm and we were standing outside in the middle of it. Usually you can see hard rain like this coming at least thirty seconds before it gets to you, but not this time. It moved with a stealth that suprised even me. Along with the rain came the hardest wind I've ever stood in during my short life.
I read a Stephen King book once, whose title I can't remember (Maybe Black House?), in which a character was talking about that there may be only two or three instances in a person's life where they actually have a great day, or that there is a moment so awesome that it brings tears to their eyes. Well, today was one of those experiences. As the rain and wind passed overhead, it was so awesome. It felt cleansing and refreshing, like I was reborn. The fact that I was sharing the moment with someone that I truly care about multiplied this feeling ten fold. Maybe I'm just crazy, I don't know. I just had a really good experience tonight...
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Submitted by dasteve (user info) at 2003-07-29 02:23:58 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Nature.
Submitted by earth_collapse (user info) at 2003-07-29 02:16:36 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
awesome, I love storms...I love falling to sleep in storms....